Did France apply ethnic cleansing to Algerians while struggling to hold on to their colony, killing tens of thousands of freedom fighters and innocent civilians? When will France apologize and pay reparations?
2007-10-11 05:15:59 · 13 answers · asked by Totally Blunt 7 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Turkey
Yes, they killed and raped and robbed energetic ressources.
2007-10-11 05:34:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 2⤋
I don't even know where to begin to answer this question.
In Algeria at that time even the French teachers were harrassing children to not to mention a word in their own language. imagine the rest...
If Paris metro could talk... They can tell you about the massacres...
French genocides and massacres don't end with Algeria.
MASSACRE OF PROTESTANTS
"Saint Bartholomew's Day
This massacre of which Protestants were the victims occurred in Paris on 24 August, 1572 (the feast of St. Bartholomew), and in the provinces of France during the ensuing weeks, and it has been the subject of knotty historical disputes.
The first point argued was whether or not the massacre had been premeditated by the French Court — Sismondi, Sir James Mackintosh, and Henri Bordier maintaining that it had, and Ranke, Henri Martin, Henry White, Loiseleur, H. de la Ferrière, and the Abbé Vacandard, that it had not. The second question debated was the extent to which the court of Rome was responsible for this outrage. At present only a few over-zealous Protestant historians claim that the Holy See was the accomplice of the French Court: this view implies their belief in the premeditation of the massacre, which is now denied by the majority of historians. For the satisfactory solution of the question it is necessary to distinguish carefully between the attempted murder of Coligny on 22 August and his assassination on the night of 23-24 August, and the general massacre of Protestants......."
i am sure they are going to say but it was not in the modern France bla bla bla
Another one which is very important:
Sending the undesirable jews to the camps
VICHY GOUVERNMENT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
Well as De gaulle said Vichy is not France bla bla bla bla
So what i don't understand how these people always find a way for the things they HAVE DONE and why we are blamed for the things WE HAVEN'T DONE!
2007-10-11 19:34:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
After having lost all their colonies, they tried to keep the last one : Algeria (which is 2,5 bigger than France's superficy ), and after 17 years of war they finally had to leave this land in 1962.
The Algerians say that the French have killed more than 1 million people in the last years of french period ( from 1945 to 1962 ).
When Paris was liberated by the American troops and the french Resistance guerilleros, when the Nazis had to surrender and leave occupied France, all the French people were so so happy to get back their freedom.
But at the same time, while the French were glad, they refused to leave Algeria !!!
What a paradox !!!!
The Algerians asked for their independance,but the french governement and the General de Gaulle ( who was the french "Atatürk", in fact ) refused to satisfy the Algerians's requests...And the war began...
What a shelfisness, isn't it ?...
The French wanted the Germans to leave, but themselves r efused to leave Algeria !!!!
Even 45 years later, today the Algerian President Boutlefika still refuses to forget nor forgive...The Algerians asked French Governement to apologize officially.
But France refuses to apologize ( well spoken, Anlarm and Irmak ), and Sarkozy says that France is not responsible for what happened at this time.
So how the hell people ( such as these egoist and arrogant French ) dare accuse us for what happened 92 years ago ?
France says they are innocent for what happened 45 years ago, but they dare accuse us !!!
Such a non-sense !!!
2007-10-11 11:25:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes . And they must apologize to all Africa and the world.
Do you know that these idiots have enough nuc power to divide the earth in to two part. They are more dangereus than the Saddam and Iran . Coes we know their millitary at WW2.
2007-10-11 10:12:01 · answer #4 · answered by hanibal 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-10-11 05:31:15 · answer #5 · answered by Mehmet K 3 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Yes they did but they will never apologize. Their honorable and civilized president said that they don't need to apologize for what happened years ago.
2007-10-11 06:41:33 · answer #6 · answered by anlarm 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
YES they did but they don´t have the faculty of admitting
and regretting.
2007-10-11 11:35:32 · answer #7 · answered by sultan.murat 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well they already accepted what they did. But they won't apologize. And do you know why? Because they are too busy with falsely accusing Turks.
2007-10-11 06:03:30 · answer #8 · answered by Leprechaun 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
yes
2007-10-11 13:16:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES! We all know that French politics are without merit.
2007-10-11 06:45:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes..I don't know.Sarkozy says 'we must forget it and look at the future'
He is funny.
2007-10-11 07:40:49 · answer #11 · answered by Irmak 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋